Motivational Quotes

Men

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

- Stein, Gertrude

Best Quotes about Men

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

Solanis, Valerie

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Miedzian, Myriam

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Shaw, George Bernard

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Paglia, Camille

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.

Oakley, Ann

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Swift, Jonathan

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Anouilh, Jean

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Aleichem, Sholom

10.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

Cher

11.

I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Parker, Dorothy

12.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

13.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

14.

Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Cope, Wendy

15.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Caesar, Julius

16.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Mansfield, Jane

17.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

19.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell.

Morgan, Robin

20.

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

Ford, Anna

21.

Macho doesn't prove mucho.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

22.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

Stassinopoulos, Arianna

23.

I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.

West, Mae

24.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

25.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Burroughs, John

26.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Whately, Richard

27.

Prudent men woo thrifty women.

Proverb, German

28.

What God wants are men great enough to be small enough to be used.

29.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

King, Florence

30.

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- only then will we know what it is to be free.

Dworkin, Andrea

31.

Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.

Proverb

32.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

Rowland, Helen

33.

All men are two meters tall... give or take a meter.

34.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Garfield, James A.

35.

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Bernikow, Louise

36.

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Newman, Andrea

37.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

38.

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

Solanis, Valerie

39.

A true man hates no one.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Greer, Germaine

41.

It is a man's world, and you men can have it.

Porter, Katherine Anne

42.

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

Lewis, Wyndham

43.

Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

Gilder, George

44.

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Day, Doris

45.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Crisp, Quentin

46.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.

Gable, Clark

47.

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for doing the best for his children?

Figes, Eva

48.

I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.

West, Mae

49.

Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.

Atwood, Margaret

50.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

Hall, S. C.